Python equivalent of Ruby's each_slice(count)

There is a recipe for this in the itertools documentation called grouper:

from itertools import izip_longest
def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None):
    "grouper(3, 'ABCDEFG', 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
    args = [iter(iterable)] * n
    return izip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)

Use like this:

>>> l = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
>>> for a,b in grouper(2, l):
>>>     print a, b

1 2
3 4
5 6

Duplicates ruby's each_slice behavior for a small trailing slice:

def each_slice(size, iterable):
    """ Chunks the iterable into size elements at a time, each yielded as a list.

    Example:
      for chunk in each_slice(2, [1,2,3,4,5]):
          print(chunk)

      # output:
      [1, 2]
      [3, 4]
      [5]
    """
    current_slice = []
    for item in iterable:
        current_slice.append(item)
        if len(current_slice) >= size:
            yield current_slice
            current_slice = []
    if current_slice:
        yield current_slice

The answers above will pad the last list (i.e., [5, None]), which may not be what is desired in some cases.

I know this has been answered by multiple experts on the language, but I have a different approach using a generator function that is easier to read and reason about and modify according to your needs:

def each_slice(list: List[str], size: int):
    batch = 0
    while batch * size < len(list):
        yield list[batch * size:(batch + 1) * size]
        batch += 1   

slices = each_slice(["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"], 2)
print([s for s in slices])

$ [['a', 'b'], ['c', 'd'], ['e', 'f'], ['g']]

If you need each slice to be of batch size, maybe pad None, or some default character you can simply add padding code to the yield. If you want each_cons instead, you can do that by modifying the code to move one by one instead of batch by batch.